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Show Skimpy. A contributor to the American Magazine Mag-azine tells the following story: "A clerk in one of the great jewelry stores on Fifth avenue fn New York City exhibited to a rich and weary customer a lady's handbag, five inches square, made of platinum and fairly well covered on one side only with diamonds. The price was $9,000. The fact that one side only was covered with diamonds troubled the customer. Turning the handbag around and around, and looking at it from all sides over and over, he finally said, 'Very pretty really. But I don't like one side without diamonds. Honestly the thing looks skimpy rather skimpy.' skim-py.' At an additional expense of $7,-000 $7,-000 this difficulty was removed." |